You may be right, Robert! I hadn't thought of squirrels. We rarely see
them out here, but there are a few around. The trees are small - just two
years old and about 12 feet tall.
Tina
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 2:12 PM, <r.burnette@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tina:
>
> Unless your fruit trees are very small, deer couldn't reach the higher
> fruits. I had a similar incident with a peach tree several years ago. Every
> peach disappeared overnight just as they had ripened enough to pick. The
> tree was about 15' tall. It was stripped bare. My best guess as to the
> culprits--the local squirrel population.
>
> Robert
>
> ---- Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > We had two peach trees loaded with peaches and three apple trees full of
> > apples. Overnight every piece of fruit disappeared. It had to be deer
> but
> > I haven't seen them. Normally, our German Shepherd keeps them away but I
> > guess they came in the middle of the night and she slept through the
> theft!
> >
> > Love the photo but not the deer in my garden!
> >
> > Tina
> >
>
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